Biographies

Mr. Richard B. Saltzman is Chairman of the Board of the Company. Mr. Saltzman also serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of CLNY, having previously held the positions of President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Colony Capital, Inc., the predecessor to CLNY. In addition, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Colony Credit Real Estate, Inc. (NYSE: CLNC), a company that is externally managed by CLNY.Prior to joining the Colony Capital business in 2003, Mr. Saltzman spent 24 years in the investment banking business primarily specializing in real estate-related businesses and investments. Most recently, he was a Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch’s investment banking division. As a member of the investment banking operating committee, he oversaw the firm’s global real estate, hospitality and restaurant businesses. Previously, he also served as Chief Operating Officer of Investment Banking and had responsibility for Merrill Lynch’s Global Leveraged Finance business. Mr. Saltzman received his Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College in 1977 and a Master of Science in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University in 1979.

Mr. Mahbod Nia is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of NorthStar Realty Europe Corporation. Mr. Nia also serves as Managing Director at CLNY, a position he has held since January 2017 and served as Managing Director and Head of European Investments at NSAM, a position he held from July 2014 to January 2017. Prior to joining NSAM, from 2010 to July 2014, Mr. Nia acted as an independent advisor, including for PanCap Investment Partners, a European real estate investment and advisory firm with clients including Goldman Sachs (Real Estate Principal Investments Area) and other blue chip institutions. From 2007 to 2009, Mr. Nia was a Senior Executive Director in the Real Estate Banking Group at Goldman Sachs. Prior to 2007, Mr. Nia served in various positions at Citigroup Inc. (formerly Salomon Brothers). Mr. Nia holds a Masters in Economics and Finance from the University of Warwick and a First Class Honors degree in Economics for Business.

Mr. Keith A. Feldman has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer of the Company, Effective May 10, 2017. Mr. Feldman also serves as a managing director of CLNY, a position he has held since January 2017 and served as a managing director of NSAM, from July 2014 to January 2017, as a managing director of NorthStar Realty from January 2014 to July 2014 and as a director of NorthStar Realty from January 2012 to December 2013. In each of these roles, Mr. Feldman’s responsibilities included capital markets, corporate finance, and investor relations. Earlier in his career, Mr. Feldman held various financial positions at NorthStar Realty, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase and KPMG LLP. Mr. Feldman received a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Binghamton University. Mr. Feldman is a CFA charterholder.

Mr. Trevor K. Ross is General Counsel, Secretary of the company. Mr. Ross is responsible for the management of legal affairs and generally provides legal and other support to the operations of the Company. Mr. Ross also serves as Managing Director, Deputy General Counsel, Europe at CLNY, a position he has held since January 2017. Mr. Ross is responsible for the management of European legal affairs and generally provides legal and other support to the European operations of CLNY. Prior to joining us, Mr. Ross was a partner in the Real Estate Capital Markets practice at the law firm of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (formerly known as Hunton & Williams LLP). Mr. Ross practiced at Hunton Andrews Kurth from September 2002 until August 2015 where he advised numerous REITs and other specialty finance companies and specialized in capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities law compliance and corporate governance matters. Mr. Ross holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance and accounting from Mercer University and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the Mercer University School of Law where he served as the Articles Editor of the Mercer Law Review.

Ms. Judith A. Hannaway is lead independent director of the Company. During the past five years, Ms. Hannaway has acted as a consultant to various financial institutions. Prior to acting as a consultant, Ms. Hannaway was previously employed by Scudder Investments, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bank Asset Management, as a Managing Director. Ms. Hannaway joined Scudder Investments in 1994 and was responsible for Special Product Development including closed-end funds, offshore funds and REIT funds. Prior to joining Scudder Investments, Ms. Hannaway was employed by Kidder Peabody as a Senior Vice President in Alternative Investment Product Development. She joined Kidder Peabody in 1980 as a Real-Estate Product Manager. Ms. Hannaway also serves as an independent director of Fortress Transportation & Infrastructure LLC since January 2018, and previously served as an independent director of NorthStar Realty and NSAM from September 2004 and June 2014, respectively through January 2017. Ms. Hannaway holds a Bachelor of Arts from Newton College of the Sacred Heart and a Master of Business Administration from Simmons College Graduate Program in Management.

Mr. Mario Chisholm is independent director of the Company. Mr. Chisholm is the Founding Principal of Sandman Ventures Ltd. (SVS Real Estate), which he founded in July 2014. SVS Real Estate is a London based company specializing in real estate, hospitality and PropTech. SVS Real Estate acts as an investor, advisor, asset manager and/or operating partner in real estate related transactions across the world. Additionally, in July 2014, SVS Real Estate invested in Spanish Real Estate asset manager Urban Input S.L. and Mr. Chisholm joined the investment committee of Urban Input S.L. In July 2014, Mr. Chisholm co-founded Uniq Residential S.L., a real estate development company focused on residential and hospitality developments in Spain, and continues to serve as a board member. Prior to SVS Real Estate’s founding, Mr. Chisholm served as a real estate investor at Och-Ziff Capital Management Europe Ltd from July 2011 to June 2014, during which time he negotiated and completed various pan-European real estate transactions across a wide array of asset classes, multiple geographies and across the capital structure. From 2009 to 2011, Mr. Chisholm served as a real estate professional at Benson Elliot Services Ltd, where he managed various real estate development projects in the Iberian Region and in Hungary. Mr. Chisholm has a Bachelor of Economic Science, with Honours, and a Masters of Science in Economics and Econometrics with Merit, each received from the University of Manchester.

Ms. Dianne Hurley is Independent Director of the Company. s. Hurley is the Chief Administrative Officer of A&E Real Estate, an owner/operator of multifamily properties in the New York City Metropolitan area, where she has worked on all aspects related to the firm’s management since March 2017. Prior to that, from January 2015, she was an operational consultant to startup asset management firms including Stonecourt Capital LP, Imperial Companies and RedBird Capital Partners. Previously, Ms. Hurley served from November 2011 to January 2015, as Managing Director of SG Partners, a boutique executive search firm, where her responsibilities included business development, private equity, hedge fund, real estate and investor relations recruiting efforts. From September 2009 to November 2011, Ms. Hurley served as the Chief Operating Officer, Global Distribution, at Credit Suisse Asset Management, where she was responsible for overall management of the sales business, strategic initiatives, financial and client reporting, and regulatory and compliance oversight. From 2004 to September 2009, Ms. Hurley served as the founding Chief Administrative Officer of TPG-Axon Capital, where she was responsible for investor relations and fundraising, human capital management, compliance policy implementation, joint venture real estate investments and corporate real estate. Earlier in her career, Ms. Hurley worked in real estate and corporate finance at Edison Schools Inc. and in the real estate department at Goldman Sachs. Ms. Hurley holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and a Master of Business Administration from Yale School of Management..

Mr. Oscar Junquera is independent director of the company. r. Junquera also serves on the board of directors of Toroso Investments LLC and has previously served on the board of directors of NSAM from June 2014 through January 2017. Mr. Junquera has also previously served on the board of directors of HF2 Financial Management Inc. from February 2013 until March 2015. Mr. Junquera is the founder of PanMar Capital llc., a private equity firm specializing in the financial services industry and has been a Managing Partner since its formation in January 2008. Mr. Junquera worked on matters related to the formation of PanMar Capital LLC. from July 2007 until December 2008. From 1980 until June 2007, Mr. Junquera was at PaineWebber, which was sold to UBS AG in 2000. He began at PaineWebber in the Investment Banking Division and was appointed Managing Director in 1988, Group Head-Financial Institutions in 1990 and a member of the Investment Banking Executive Committee in 1995. Following the sale of PaineWebber to UBS in 2000, Mr. Junquera was appointed Global Head of Asset Management Investment Banking at UBS and was responsible for establishing and building the bank’s franchise with mutual fund, institutional, high net worth and alternative asset management firms, as well as banks, insurance and financial services companies active in asset management. Mr. Junquera has served on the Board of Trustees of the Long Island Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and is a supporter of various other charitable organizations. Mr. Junquera holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Mr. Wesley D. Minami is independent director of the company. From 2001 to 2002, he served as President of Charles E. Smith Residential Realty, Inc., a REIT that was listed on the NYSE. In this capacity, Mr. Minami was responsible for the development, construction, acquisition and property management of over 22,000 high-rise apartments in five major U.S. markets. He resigned from this position after completing the transition and integration of Charles E. Smith Residential Realty, Inc. from an independent public company to a division of Archstone-Smith Trust, an apartment company that was listed on the NYSE. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Minami worked as Chief Financial Officer and then Chief Operating Officer of Charles E. Smith Residential Realty, Inc. Prior to 1997, Mr. Minami served in various financial service capacities for numerous entities, including Ascent Entertainment Group, Comsat Corporation, Oxford Realty Services Corporation and Satellite Business Systems. Mr. Minami also served as a director of NorthStar Realty and NSAM from September 2004 and June 2014, respectively, through January 2017. Mr. Minami holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, with honors, from Grinnell College and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Chicago.

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